Race, Class, and Gender in the United States

Paula S. Rothenberg was a Senior Fellow at The Murphy Institute, City University of New York and Professor at William Patterson University of New Jersey. From 1989 to 2006 she served as Director of The New Jersey Project on Inclusive Scholarship, Curriculum, and Teaching. She was the author of several books including the autobiographical Invisible Privilege: A Memoir about Race, Class, and Gender. With Worth Publishers she has authored four titles--the best-selling Race, Class, and Gender; White Privilege; Beyond Borders; and What's the Problem? Her articles and essays appear in journals and anthologies across the disciplines and have been widely reprinted. Her work was instrumental in the creation of women’s studies and multicultural studies as academic disciplines.

Christina Hsu Accomando is a professor of English and Critical Race, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Humboldt State University in Arcata, California. She teaches multiethnic U.S. literature, ethnic studies, women’s studies, and multicultural queer studies. Drawing upon critical race studies and women of color feminism, her scholarship focuses on the law and literature of U.S. slavery and resistance, particularly the work of Harriet Jacobs and Sojourner Truth, as well as contemporary issues of race, gender, and U.S. law. She is the author of “The Regulations of Robbers”: Legal Fictions of Slavery and Resistance, and her essays have appeared in Still Seeking an Attitude: Critical Reflections on the Work of June Jordan and the Norton Critical Edition of Harriet Jacobs’ Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. She blogs with Kristin J. Anderson for Psychology Today, and her work has also been published in MELUS, African American Review, Feminism & Psychology, and The Antioch Review. In addition, Accomando co-edited and wrote the introduction for the expanded second edition of Tim’m West’s RED DIRT REVIVAL: a poetic memoir in 6 breaths.